Saleh 'to step down within days'

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday said that he will step down from power within the coming days.
"I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power in the coming days," he said in a speech broadcast on state television.
He returned to Yemen unexpectedly last month from Saudi Arabia where he had been receiving treatment after his office was shelled in June.
He is faced with protests and an insurrection by renegade army units.
Saleh has appeared to be ready to resign several times, but pulled out of deals to stand down at the last moment.
He has also refused to sign a transition deal brokered by Gulf states, whereby he would hand over power to his vice president in return for immunity from prosecution.
In his speech he gave no precise date for standing down. But Yemen's deputy information minister told the BBC that Saleh is no longer clinging to power.